DOCTORS providing vital medical aid in third-world countries have launched an operation to give primary healthcare to asylum-seekers in broken Britain.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as Doctors without Borders, and Doctors of the World (DOTW) UK revealed today that they have been assessing the physical and mental health needs of the men being held in a large-scale containment site in the former military barracks at Wethersfield in Essex since early September.

About 650 men are currently held at the site, but the number will be increased to 1,700 this year under government plans.